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We are on week three of what has been hinted at being a 12 week long media blitz attacking Planned Parenthood, and GOP politicians have been responding beautifully to the prompts provided to them by the anti-abortion movement. What has in the past simply been an annual (failed) push to defund the reproductive health care provider has instead turned into a frenzy of investigations across the country, led by some of the most anti-abortion, anti-birth control legislators in the country.

As the anti-abortion group "Center for Medical Progress" releases yet another new (and this time graphic) Youtube video, attacks on Planned Parenthood (and even independent abortion providers, too) continue. Here are just four of the latest ways the anti-abortion movement hopes to close them for good.

Zapatista women lead a funeral procession for a woman killed by Mexico's federal police in Chiapas, Mexico, in January 2005. (Photo: Oriana Eliçabe/Flickr)

After centuries of oppression, a few indigenous voices of dissent in Chiapas, Mexico, rose up to became a force of thousands - the Zapatistas. Hilary Klein's Compañeras relays the stories of the Zapatista women who have overcome hardship to strengthen their communities and build a movement with global influence.

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories:

After visiting us several times, they began to explain the struggle: what they were fighting for and whom they were fighting against.

A recent Reuters' article opened with the following stunning sentence:

"Long-term high-dose use of painkillers such as ibuprofen or diclofenac is 'equally hazardous' in terms of heart attack risk as use of the drug Vioxx, which was withdrawn due to its potential dangers, researchers said."

The 2004 Vioxx recall, as you may remember, was spurred by the nearly 30,000 excess cases of heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths caused by the drug between 1999-2003.

It’s a little mind boggling to think that a big pile of garbage can become something beneficial, and for some people, it might not be the most exciting topic, but Pete Gallins gets pretty animated when asked how compost is made.

In fact, Gallins went to college at the University of Wyoming to study business, but an agriculture class provided an “aha” moment, when he realized studying crops and soils was way more interesting.

The World Health Organization’s cancer agency IARC has published the full report which caused a huge worldwide response, when they announced earlier this year that the World’s most sold herbicide, glyphosate, is a probable human carcinogen.

The assessment by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of glyphosate, which is used in herbicides with estimated annual sales of USD 6 Billion, is of special concern to Monsanto, the company that brought glyphosate to market under the trade name Roundup in the 1970s.

That depression can take a toll on your physical health is pretty well-recognized. Recent research has also found that it can actually cause changes in your brain.

Specifically, recurring depressive episodes reduce the size of your hippocampus — an area of your brain involved in forming emotions and memory — stressing the importance of early intervention, especially among teenagers.

Your memory isn't only restricted to remembering dates and passwords; it also plays an important role in developing and maintaining your sense of self.

Farmers and ranchers who have been historically underserved by federal programs, as well as veterans and other rural landowners will gather here Thursday to learn more about how to access agricultural programs designed for them.

The Arkansas Land and Community Development Corp. will bring together representatives from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource ConservationService, Farm Service Agency, Rural Development, Strike Force and Arkansas Forestry Commission at Hempstead Hall on the University of Arkansas Hope campus beginning at 10 a.m.

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